Bollywood star's marriage mired in paper trouble

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, who
married his girlfriend at a Hindu temple, has been unable to
register the marriage after the bride forged residence
documents, leaving the alliance legally invalid, an official
said on Thursday.

The spotlight seems to refuse to leave Dutt, a beefy,
action hero, whose third marriage is making as much news as his
court battles to clear his name in an illegal guns case.

Dutt and girlfriend Manyata married in a traditional Hindu
ceremony in the western city of Mumbai this month, two years
after they started dating.

The couple applied to register their marriage in the
tourist haven of Goa where Manyata said she had lived, and
provided residence documents.

But their application was put on hold after her documents
were found to be forged, and they have now withdrawn their
application to register the marriage.

"We had kept the marriage pending, but now they do not wish
to pursue it further," Vithal Salkar, marriage registrar in
Goa, said. "The documents were not proper."

Dutt, 48, could not be immediately reached for a comment.
Neither was it immediately clear if they could apply to
register the marriage in another state.

The actor, among the highest paid in Bollywood, is out on
bail, while he challenges his conviction for getting illegal
guns from gangsters connected with India's worst bombing in
Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993.

Dutt's first wife died of brain tumor, while his second
marriage ended in divorce. Dutt has a daughter from his first
marriage.